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Joint International IGIP-<strong>SEFI</strong> Annual Conference 2010, 19 th - 22 nd September 2010, Trnava, Slovakia Data on orientation were collected using the Person-Thing Orientation Scale originally developed by Little [11] and revised and validated by Graziano, Habashi, Ngambeki, & Evangelou [15]. Data regarding career interest were collected using the Occupational Scale [16]. Demographic information was also obtained from all participants. For the US sample, data were collected using an electronic survey. For the Greek and Turkish samples data were collected using paper surveys. In the Greek and Turkish contexts all scales were translated into the language and back into English and expert feedback was sought on the validity of term equivalency. Scales were scored and data analyzed using common statistical methods. 3. Results The results revealed that males were higher than females in thing orientation in all three contexts, while females scored higher than males in person orientation in all three contexts. Table 2 below shows the distribution of person and thing orientation by sex in the three samples. Table 2: Person and thing orientation means by sex (SD in brackets) Person Orientation Thing Orientation Male Female Male Female Greece 2.8(.57) 3.21(.65) 3.19(.81) 2.74(.73) Turkey 1.96(.68) 2.49(.58) 2.00(.73) 1.71(.78) United States 2.10(.69) 2.49(.61) 2.30(.78) 1.71(.79) Students in the Greek sample scored uniformly higher in both person and thing orientation than the other two samples. Contrary to the US sample, neither Greek nor Turkish female students differed from their male counterparts in TO. However, Greek and Turkish female students reported significantly higher PO than males. The results also revealed that STEM students were higher than non-STEM students in TO in all three contexts. Analyses also revealed a main effect of major in the Turkish context (F (1, 193) = 36.14, p
Joint International IGIP-<strong>SEFI</strong> Annual Conference 2010, 19 th - 22 nd September 2010, Trnava, Slovakia The results also revealed that PO and TO were independent in the Turkish sample (r = 0.08, ns) and positively correlated in the US (r = 0.2, p
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